Bullying in the news

March 25, 2014

Houston Chronicle

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Hannah Turpin, 13, (left), a classmate and friend of Asher Brown, gives Amy Truong, Asher's mother, a hug as her husband David Truong (right), reflects as he looks towards a photo of his stepson, Asher Brown, the thirteen-year-old boy who committed suicide as a result of school bullying last week, during a memorial service near Moore Elementary School Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Houston.
Asher shot himself in the head with his stepfather's handgun on Sept. 23 at his family's home. Truong said his son, a straight-A student who loved to read, had been ridiculed by students at school because he was small, a Buddhist and didn't wear designer clothes.
"What my child went through was not normal in any capacity," Truong said. "It was relentless. It was just day after day and nothing was done and now my son is dead."
( Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle )

Houston Chronicle

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Hannah Turpin, 13, (left), a classmate and friend of Asher Brown, gives Amy Truong, Asher's mother, a hug as her husband David Truong (right), reflects as he looks towards a photo of his stepson, Asher Brown, the thirteen-year-old boy who committed suicide as a result of school bullying last week, during a memorial service near Moore Elementary School Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Houston.
Asher shot himself in the head with his stepfather's handgun on Sept. 23 at his family's home. Truong said his son, a straight-A student who loved to read, had been ridiculed by students at school because he was small, a Buddhist and didn't wear designer clothes.
"What my child went through was not normal in any capacity," Truong said. "It was relentless. It was just day after day and nothing was done and now my son is dead."
( Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle )